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the foreign policy side not enough on the domestic. it's not an end in itself. but we have to do more here so we can do more there. >> john: this is truly something that is in fact america's foreign policy or throwing money at the problem. we see that happening now in egypt. let's just apply this book to egypt. you talk a lot about how america may be better off with evolution or revolution, which rhymes so it definitely carries some weight. what does that mean. >> the middle east no longer should dominate america's foreign policy. in the middle east in a place like egypt we ought to be saying if you want our support, you have to meet certain conditions: economic reform, political reform. you can't insist but you can say here's the incentive and here's the penalty if you don't do it. >> john: there's a situation now where we... the military seems to have... no one is saying that morsi was a particularly good man. but just to have a foreign policy in place. >> the difference is what happens in egypt is the difference between democracy an
the foreign policy side not enough on the domestic. it's not an end in itself. but we have to do more here so we can do more there. >> john: this is truly something that is in fact america's foreign policy or throwing money at the problem. we see that happening now in egypt. let's just apply this book to egypt. you talk a lot about how america may be better off with evolution or revolution, which rhymes so it definitely carries some weight. what does that mean. >> the middle east no...
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i just don't think this is a smart way or a good way to conduct foreign policy. i believe the president has ,aised the stakes for himself for the rest of his presidency, and indeed, for his successors. i don't think this has been well handled at all. have made the argument that what the president has done is a number of things. others have argued that what he has done is to weaken the power of the presidency into the future. if you believe you are right and you have the authority and power to make that decision, why did you not just do it as opposed to going to congress for cover? the president explicitly said he believes he has the authority to act, and then a minute later he said nevertheless, he was going to go to congress. he has now raised the risk of not getting congressional support, then either we don't act with all the consequences of that, or we have a real constitutional crisis on our hands if he were to act all the same. if not more likely is the possibility that congress gives him a yellow light, rather than a green are red light. only act ind can ce
i just don't think this is a smart way or a good way to conduct foreign policy. i believe the president has ,aised the stakes for himself for the rest of his presidency, and indeed, for his successors. i don't think this has been well handled at all. have made the argument that what the president has done is a number of things. others have argued that what he has done is to weaken the power of the presidency into the future. if you believe you are right and you have the authority and power to...
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foreign policy. relationships and the process for carrying on. you cannot talk to the united states, we are too big. but you add a measure of reserve to that. the damage israel. >> a claim disputed by julian lesange. >> it can never be that contain true information to the public is espionage. it is important that this president of charging journalistic sources with espionage not be permitted to stand. it is a serious precedent, a serious abuse, and it will mean the end of national security journalism and the united states. >> the judge disagreed and will decide if the man responsible for the largest leak of classified material will spend a few years or the rest of his life behind bars. former department after publicly condemning the conditions of bradley manning, he said the judge was right in acquitting manning of charges of aiding the enemy. iswhat is important sustaining discipline. he admitted to convey this information and in doing so, violated his responsibility as a soldier in a war zone that carries very significant consequences. the enem
foreign policy. relationships and the process for carrying on. you cannot talk to the united states, we are too big. but you add a measure of reserve to that. the damage israel. >> a claim disputed by julian lesange. >> it can never be that contain true information to the public is espionage. it is important that this president of charging journalistic sources with espionage not be permitted to stand. it is a serious precedent, a serious abuse, and it will mean the end of national...
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of the country and at least in its diplomacy is not a foreign policy. >> yes? >> okay, i will comment. >> all right, thank you so much. thank you for this interesting talk. with the presence of this in the energy industry, are we concerned that over the long-term we have sought diversity in the economy that we have become so dependent upon, particularly that of natural gas. and so much that it seems to be changing in the energy industry with unconditional sources of energy becoming more fruitful. are we concerned that the recent success in excluding those natural resources might become less of this? >> there is a rhetoric and there is a reality. a rhetoric is that we are trying to foster a knowledge-based economy and so the new buzzword, the last two years the buzzword has been a knowledge-based economy in preparation for this. and a knowledge-based economy is great. it sounds very exciting and interesting and it doesn't, at least in the political system, and a fundamentally based economy, it is far from reality. the actual reality is that what qatar is trying
of the country and at least in its diplomacy is not a foreign policy. >> yes? >> okay, i will comment. >> all right, thank you so much. thank you for this interesting talk. with the presence of this in the energy industry, are we concerned that over the long-term we have sought diversity in the economy that we have become so dependent upon, particularly that of natural gas. and so much that it seems to be changing in the energy industry with unconditional sources of energy...
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of foreign policy at the brookings institute. we have the latest from the u.s. state department. >> on monday, the obama administration said the former ambassador would be the point person on this latest round of palestinian peace talks. he used to be the ambassador to israel and is going to reprocess that has faced a lot of challenges the last few years. amid ongoing concerns about palestinian borders and whether they would respect the pre-1967 lines and the ongoing concerns on both sides. he said he was trying to find a way to help to people actually achieve a longtime goal of theirs. to you deeply grateful and president obama entrusting me with helping you take this a breakthrough at turn it into a full fledged israeli-palestinian peace agreement. it is a daunting and humbling challenge that i can not desist from. i look forward to great excitement working with you and thedreams to achieve state's living side by side in peace and security. expected to feature informal conversations about the peace process. the hard work began
of foreign policy at the brookings institute. we have the latest from the u.s. state department. >> on monday, the obama administration said the former ambassador would be the point person on this latest round of palestinian peace talks. he used to be the ambassador to israel and is going to reprocess that has faced a lot of challenges the last few years. amid ongoing concerns about palestinian borders and whether they would respect the pre-1967 lines and the ongoing concerns on both...
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this week a focus on foreign policy. it didn't get much attention in the president's inaugural address, but as his second term is underway, there's certainly a lot of focus on some of the big areas that he will be occupied by when it comes to national security and the world. what are some of the big bets that president obama can make to cement his legacy abroad? joining me is martin indyk of the brookings institution, an assistant secretary of state for president clinton and also the author of "bending history, barack obama's foreign policy." i got to take part in a conversation of big bets, black swans, a presidential briefing where you and the team at brookings write about both some of the real dangers in foreign policy as well as some areas where the president can make an impact if he so chooses. there's a lot to digest including the fact a new secretary of state is going to be presumably confirmed by the senate, john kerry. and yet in the financial times as we do this interview it is hillary clinton and the questions
this week a focus on foreign policy. it didn't get much attention in the president's inaugural address, but as his second term is underway, there's certainly a lot of focus on some of the big areas that he will be occupied by when it comes to national security and the world. what are some of the big bets that president obama can make to cement his legacy abroad? joining me is martin indyk of the brookings institution, an assistant secretary of state for president clinton and also the author of...
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foreign policy? >> actually i hope so. bonnie, women were at the forefront of the egyptian revolution, i assume that this is the work of counter revolutionaries or perhaps thugs. >> good for those women standing up for the right to protest what has been a terrible regime, not good for women anywhere but morsi hasn't been the right leader either. >> there's also some element of gangs in that fraternities, you see individuals will do in a gang that they would never consider doing on their own. but there is so little bystander intervention says something about the culture. >> let's be honest there is culture pervasive of women being objectified. you have religious, conservative clerics and government officials say this is the women's fault they should not be mixing with men in society. there's this underlying nature there that we are not going to be helped overnight. >> i think everybody would agree it's fabulous that the women are standing up there now and fighting back against these assaults. but how -- they were also voter
foreign policy? >> actually i hope so. bonnie, women were at the forefront of the egyptian revolution, i assume that this is the work of counter revolutionaries or perhaps thugs. >> good for those women standing up for the right to protest what has been a terrible regime, not good for women anywhere but morsi hasn't been the right leader either. >> there's also some element of gangs in that fraternities, you see individuals will do in a gang that they would never consider...
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and it's, again, part of the genius of its foreign policy. they know the americans are there, and so why spend millions or billions of dollars in the same way that the emirates or the saudis do on hardware? in fact, in wikileaks there's a very interesting cable in which one of the high-ranking qatari military commanders complains to the americans and says, my budget keeps getting cut, and i want more budget, and it's cut by 10%. which is really interesting because the government was secure in its, in the fact that the united states is there, so why bother spending money on military hardware. having said that, recently they've placed a couple of major military purchases. um, having said all of this, for the last 35 years all of the states of the gulf cooperation council have capitalized on america's tensions with iran. they have seen u.s./iranian tensions as an opportunity to position themselves as america's allies, as america's reliable allies with the former ally, iran, being a pariah state. the former ally, iraq, being the pariah state and
and it's, again, part of the genius of its foreign policy. they know the americans are there, and so why spend millions or billions of dollars in the same way that the emirates or the saudis do on hardware? in fact, in wikileaks there's a very interesting cable in which one of the high-ranking qatari military commanders complains to the americans and says, my budget keeps getting cut, and i want more budget, and it's cut by 10%. which is really interesting because the government was secure in...
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now get this herald a major shift in egypt's foreign policy russia's foreign ministry said in a non profits in cairo was content the highest level visit to egypt by a russian delegation he is the tool supposedly including possible on sales that can be read as much as team billion dollars. they sat few weeks up to no time at night the u s cox defense aid to egypt our correspondent catherine state the house. it's sweet we see a light rain check iran said they took it back syriac a baby. chinese that we address each. it's politics it was against any current events. maybe it's time to look at. with this potential deal between the two countries. last week he added. it's a bit written by non around to it two million us dollars at the she said. cc is that today. the collaboration so it's likely that potential weapons deal was needed to be now when a stunt set up. and parents four people were in court today in connection with two thousand and five said the fire at the hotel paris opera. it was the best in a series of blazes in prison buildings housing makes the pool finest twenty four people were k
now get this herald a major shift in egypt's foreign policy russia's foreign ministry said in a non profits in cairo was content the highest level visit to egypt by a russian delegation he is the tool supposedly including possible on sales that can be read as much as team billion dollars. they sat few weeks up to no time at night the u s cox defense aid to egypt our correspondent catherine state the house. it's sweet we see a light rain check iran said they took it back syriac a baby. chinese...
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when what could be called the foreign policy establishment believes very strongly that these diplomatic effort with the ron is really worth pursuing and i think you can see that even reflected in how prime minister netanyahu of israel has modified his remarks just in the past week because i think he's getting the sense that there really is a degree of interest in washington in moving toward detente with the ron that hasn't existed before sorry ok it's and i think you have it was causing a lot of people to assess you brought up israel james and it's quite interesting because a lot of people in the greater middle east the arab world would see saudi arabia and israel strongly aligned on many many issues here what do you think the israelis are picking up on the q. now also is that you know the sands are shifting here and that kind of relationship they have with me will change you know i thank god we all found something finally we can disagree and look. closer at us already and thing is going nowhere it is just not going to happen it's a dead end it's actually going to be incredibly destabil
when what could be called the foreign policy establishment believes very strongly that these diplomatic effort with the ron is really worth pursuing and i think you can see that even reflected in how prime minister netanyahu of israel has modified his remarks just in the past week because i think he's getting the sense that there really is a degree of interest in washington in moving toward detente with the ron that hasn't existed before sorry ok it's and i think you have it was causing a lot...
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they are confident about foreign-policy credentials. he has also nominated the oil a relationat created with other members and he opened the door for foreign investment into iranian oil and gas. basically he wants to refrain from what we saw in the past eight years of mock with ahmadinejad. >> how much room does the new president have to take a more moderate approach than his predecessor? ask -- >> despite the fact that the macro policies in iran are decided by the supreme leader, each iranian president has a sizable degree of freedom to formulate his own policies. that heaid many times took the oath of office and wants to have a dialogue with the world on an equal basis with mutual respect from both sides. theoes want to engage with world and get it ran out of the isolation it is in. >> thank you very much. ,fter weeks of resistance supporters of mohamed morsi googling willingness to compromise with the military backed government. the u.s. deputy secretary of thee had been meeting with vice president and mohamed morsi supporters to bri
they are confident about foreign-policy credentials. he has also nominated the oil a relationat created with other members and he opened the door for foreign investment into iranian oil and gas. basically he wants to refrain from what we saw in the past eight years of mock with ahmadinejad. >> how much room does the new president have to take a more moderate approach than his predecessor? ask -- >> despite the fact that the macro policies in iran are decided by the supreme leader,...
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i do have to emphasize that his foreign policy hot spectacularly failed spectacularly backfired and we are seeing now the fighting and backlash to those policies it particularly until policy on syria he used to preach and lecture that shot and said on how to deal with dead people how to treat people on how not to use massive disproportionate force we are seeing do we seeing him doing the exact things that he told the shutdown that said and you also. please do i malik you were what's been elected through again democratic process and the other accused him of monopolizing and accumulating titanic old powers and these are the very accusations leveled against him by his own people but let me add on top of that here it's all the sea of actually be siding with the idea be a with qatar who are dictatorships and trying to use this same same let's say extremist hardline policies adopted by so again in actually supporting arming financing paying salaries unprecedented move to the insurgents who happen to be in the vast majority that's according to the you not only new york times are extremists
i do have to emphasize that his foreign policy hot spectacularly failed spectacularly backfired and we are seeing now the fighting and backlash to those policies it particularly until policy on syria he used to preach and lecture that shot and said on how to deal with dead people how to treat people on how not to use massive disproportionate force we are seeing do we seeing him doing the exact things that he told the shutdown that said and you also. please do i malik you were what's been...
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again, you get to priorities, not only in foreign policies. but i know you got people that suffered in the sandy hurricane. they're going to be cutting that by 2 1/2 billion dollars, according to some democratic senators now, while we're giving more money -- priorities seem all screwed up. >> it runs counter to the crazy theories in the government that we opinion money to make money. no, we're spending money to lose money with what we're doing to egypt. speaking to their theories, bring it back to the u.s. i'm waiting to hear from unger. >> i let you do it. nobody else. >> sabrina, go ahead. >> i just think this administration seems to have sort of a lack of strategy when it comes to foreign policy, which appears to be a theme here of the week. lack of strategy at home, how we're doing cuts, lack of strategy abroad. i think we have interest with egypt in the middle east in terms of women's rights and minority rights and israel. i think there is a reason to have this relationship. but i don't think this $250 million is going to do squat. >> i d
again, you get to priorities, not only in foreign policies. but i know you got people that suffered in the sandy hurricane. they're going to be cutting that by 2 1/2 billion dollars, according to some democratic senators now, while we're giving more money -- priorities seem all screwed up. >> it runs counter to the crazy theories in the government that we opinion money to make money. no, we're spending money to lose money with what we're doing to egypt. speaking to their theories, bring...
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he has carried on a lot of the bush administration policies in terms of foreign policy, and young people, this is where we agree, in terms of policy, this is not changed, we can believe it, we don't like this so he moved with these changes but the four changes are meaningless. >> youngsters, because they don't like the government -- >> they use the technology, and they're afraid of the extent to which the nsa can go trolling through what they put on their computers. >> they're libertarians. >> civil libertarians, but they're young. >> there's a great misunderstanding. when people think there's reading of their private e- mails, it's not happening. nobody cares about their e- mails. >> the three mature men who left the security operation precisely for the same reason that snowden did, they get no recognition. >> they didn't rat everybody out. >> do you have to rat out in order to get -- >> they shouldn't have. they behaved honorably, and this kid didn't. >> but we have confirmation of what snowden said through the mouths of these three people who have since talked to usa today. >> when yo
he has carried on a lot of the bush administration policies in terms of foreign policy, and young people, this is where we agree, in terms of policy, this is not changed, we can believe it, we don't like this so he moved with these changes but the four changes are meaningless. >> youngsters, because they don't like the government -- >> they use the technology, and they're afraid of the extent to which the nsa can go trolling through what they put on their computers. >> they're...
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of the country and at least in its diplomacy is not a foreign policy. >> yes? >> okay, i will comment. >> all right, thank you so much. thank you for this interesting talk. with the presence of this in the energy industry, are we concerned that over the long-term we have sought diversity in the economy that we have become so dependent upon, particularly that of natural gas. and so much that it seems to be changing in the energy industry with unconditional sources of energy becoming more fruitful. are we concerned that the recent success in excluding those natural resources might become less of this? >> there is a rhetoric and there is a reality. a rhetoric is that we are trying to foster a knowledge-based economy and so the new buzzword, the last two years the buzzword has been a knowledge-based economy in preparation for this. and a knowledge-based economy is great. it sounds very exciting and interesting and it doesn't, at least in the political system, and a fundamentally based economy, it is far from reality. the actual reality is that what qatar is trying
of the country and at least in its diplomacy is not a foreign policy. >> yes? >> okay, i will comment. >> all right, thank you so much. thank you for this interesting talk. with the presence of this in the energy industry, are we concerned that over the long-term we have sought diversity in the economy that we have become so dependent upon, particularly that of natural gas. and so much that it seems to be changing in the energy industry with unconditional sources of energy...
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foreign policy. kiss of death. yeah i would say pretty much sewn and if nothing else. he goes into a country he opened his mouth but he gives the local archery refuse to read cover to us each a state or local nationalists of being leaned on by the us. you know this is what's happening in our office we don't want it don't change direction even when he's right. perhaps it's because of the wrong way to all of a china shop so he doesn't enormous damage at the toronto will mccain isn't the only one who sort of subscribes to this point of lindsey graham is with them on a lot of these issues and connecticut's democratic senator chris murphy win with mccain to ukraine this week how is this hyper interventionist ideologies to legitimize despite its disastrous effects that we've seen over the last couple years. be it whether it be a place to the local tv audience to please the media the united states some of my inshore that it's intended that an apparent effect of the international stage. i answer it is counte
foreign policy. kiss of death. yeah i would say pretty much sewn and if nothing else. he goes into a country he opened his mouth but he gives the local archery refuse to read cover to us each a state or local nationalists of being leaned on by the us. you know this is what's happening in our office we don't want it don't change direction even when he's right. perhaps it's because of the wrong way to all of a china shop so he doesn't enormous damage at the toronto will mccain isn't the only one...
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. >> with our new foreign-policy, it will be a well-balanced relationship between egypt and the other major powers. china, russia, the u.s.. we already understand that concentrating on a given country is not good. >> the african union tries to negotiate with little success. egypt has clashed publicly with over what it sees as undue interference. these are tiring times, and worrying, too. >> it has been adopted in tunisia, libya, and the entire world is watching closely, the developments in egypt. >> the operator of the crippled fukushima nuclear plant says workers need help to stabilize and safely decommissioned damaged reactors. two more storage tanks had been found to be leaking radioactive water. it has been building up ever since the 2011 senomyx regard a triple meltdown. we talked to frightened nearby residents. >> since the accident, the residents have never had time to ease their minds from radiation fears. they fought to reassure safety of their products and displaced residents dreamed of returning to their homes. but contaminated water leaks to trade their hopes. -- betrayed
. >> with our new foreign-policy, it will be a well-balanced relationship between egypt and the other major powers. china, russia, the u.s.. we already understand that concentrating on a given country is not good. >> the african union tries to negotiate with little success. egypt has clashed publicly with over what it sees as undue interference. these are tiring times, and worrying, too. >> it has been adopted in tunisia, libya, and the entire world is watching closely, the...
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and i do worry that our discussions about foreign policy are increasingly superficial and focused on our public which through congress ultimately has the decisive word on what we can do is woefully uninformed about foreign aifertion. >> your father was -- foreign affairs. >> your father was a polish diplomat. how did that shape your views? >> that made me very conscious of the human many condition. my father was general counsel of poland and we were witnesses to the beginnings of the holocaust. not quite yet lethal but in terms of arrest of jews, persecution of jews, my father was giving polish passports illegally to german juice. then he served in the war, a war of democratic, with the world divided into a democratic camp and a totalitarian camp. and those two camps engaged in a competition which could have broken out at any moment and through nuclear weapons. when i was in the white house we knew if we had a war with the soviet union within a few hours about 85 million people would be dead. and that's a reality under which we operated. >> so one other question. you have three child
and i do worry that our discussions about foreign policy are increasingly superficial and focused on our public which through congress ultimately has the decisive word on what we can do is woefully uninformed about foreign aifertion. >> your father was -- foreign affairs. >> your father was a polish diplomat. how did that shape your views? >> that made me very conscious of the human many condition. my father was general counsel of poland and we were witnesses to the beginnings...
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policy use is neoconservative i think would be a little too simplistic to say that american foreign policy is explicitly neoconservative all the time but that said i do think that since the cold war we have as a nation been interfering far too much in other people's affairs but like i said i think be a little simplistic to say it's been a blanket lee neo conservative ok matthew i can stay with you would you say it doesn't matter what party is in power. if you said since the cold war end of the cold war i think yeah. sure democrats and republicans have both demonstrated that they are willing to get engaged in other nations abroad. obviously the events of nine eleven highlighted the republicans as the ones that like to intervene in other countries but it is by no means just a republican trade. mark would you weigh in on that would you describe american foreign policy as neo conservative absolutely not i i think words matter phrases matter and it's very important understand neo conservatism in terms of u.s. foreign policy has to do with not only seeing the world as black and white this
policy use is neoconservative i think would be a little too simplistic to say that american foreign policy is explicitly neoconservative all the time but that said i do think that since the cold war we have as a nation been interfering far too much in other people's affairs but like i said i think be a little simplistic to say it's been a blanket lee neo conservative ok matthew i can stay with you would you say it doesn't matter what party is in power. if you said since the cold war end of the...
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policy. only if i go back to you in washington iran was mentioned here and i think that's where most of us agree this is where a lot of the bridges coming out of iran originates here but hey as james said it's probably very unlikely they'll be a reproach of any kind of normalization of brain and relations there's just too much the israeli lobby in congress too many other people in foreign policy circles have just gotten so used to having around as an enemy and it's a useful enemy also in the region for the united states and other interests i mean is there any i mean the the the saudis saw this coming are they overreacting to that because the likelihood of a full reproach maulvi is very small i think we would all agree. i disagree truly i have one of these so it is many frustrations and fear. to deal with. the out of spinning and gun and they are fearful of the united states and europe but i've got a period will. look into the mid eighty's and the mid eighty's and tightly defined differently t
policy. only if i go back to you in washington iran was mentioned here and i think that's where most of us agree this is where a lot of the bridges coming out of iran originates here but hey as james said it's probably very unlikely they'll be a reproach of any kind of normalization of brain and relations there's just too much the israeli lobby in congress too many other people in foreign policy circles have just gotten so used to having around as an enemy and it's a useful enemy also in the...
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hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle what drives american foreign policy values or merely interests washington claims it supports democracy as a universal value but makes glaring exceptions when it suits its geo political purposes and what about the neo conservative agenda is it the genetic code of pax americana. to cross-talk the neo conservatives and democracy i'm joined by my guest in washington mark jacobson he is a senior fellow at the german marshall fund and a senior advisor to the truman national security project and we also have matthew feeney he is an assistant editor at reason twenty four seven or a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want matthew playing go to you first in washington would you describe american foreign policy is is neoconservative. i think it be a little too simplistic to say that american foreign policy is explicitly neoconservative all the time but that said i do think that since the cold war we have as a nation been interfering far too much in other people's affairs but like i said i thin
hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle what drives american foreign policy values or merely interests washington claims it supports democracy as a universal value but makes glaring exceptions when it suits its geo political purposes and what about the neo conservative agenda is it the genetic code of pax americana. to cross-talk the neo conservatives and democracy i'm joined by my guest in washington mark jacobson he is a senior fellow at the german marshall fund...
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to cross talk saudi arabia's foreign policy i'm joined by my guest in washington james carafano he is a vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the heritage foundation also we have me he is founder and director of the center for democracy and human rights in saudi arabia and we cross to jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for into press service and publisher of loeb blog dot com all right gentlemen close up rules of i mean you can jump in anytime you want jim if i go to you first in washington these words coming out of riyadh is that bluster i mean the united states and saudi arabia are attached at the hip and they have been for for decades it's just words coming out of riyadh well i don't think i have any particular insight into what what king abdullah is thinking and obviously he's kind of the supreme decision maker it's not that words are not just coming out of out of riyadh itself they're they're coming out of washington because prince turki just gave a very fiery speech and defiant speech at a conference here a couple of days ago. i think there are two scho
to cross talk saudi arabia's foreign policy i'm joined by my guest in washington james carafano he is a vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the heritage foundation also we have me he is founder and director of the center for democracy and human rights in saudi arabia and we cross to jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for into press service and publisher of loeb blog dot com all right gentlemen close up rules of i mean you can jump in anytime you want jim if i go to...
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this administration has a ffectless foreign policy which abandons american leadership. the president of the united states will not set deadlines. the red line is that the president of the united states has written, was apparently written in disappearing ink. >> it's always time to arm the rebels and sing another round of bomb, bomb iran. and then ask, where is president obama anyway? the president got a new foreign policy headache this month in egypt when the ouster of the elected president who replaced hosni mubarak, since then, egyptian security forces have twice opened fire on supporters killing scores of citizens each time. egypt is kind of a disaster. and president obama would seriously like to find some way of fixing it. yesterday we learned that he is sending a couple senators to egypt, they're going to go to try to convince the egyptian military to let a new round of elections take place, and their names are john mccain and lindsay graham. those two are traveling to egypt at the request of president obama. the same senator mccain and for that matter, senator gra
this administration has a ffectless foreign policy which abandons american leadership. the president of the united states will not set deadlines. the red line is that the president of the united states has written, was apparently written in disappearing ink. >> it's always time to arm the rebels and sing another round of bomb, bomb iran. and then ask, where is president obama anyway? the president got a new foreign policy headache this month in egypt when the ouster of the elected...
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premised its foreign policy based on being connected to join with the shah a time that was two years before the government was overthrown by a popular people's revolution of course saudi arabia has formant its civil war in syria it had a principle a fundamental. desire to overthrow the assad government to create a sunni a sunni government that would be backed by the saw saudi regime it did this in concert with the with got our and others it functioned as a proxy of course for the united states and western and western interests who had said assad must go but saudi arabia had its own independent national interests or perceived national interests or the interests of the monarchy the drove it to carry out civil war the blood of the syrian people is on the hands of the saudi government does so to say that there are. there's kind of this crazy mad massacre going to the lasagna arabia ok more easy mark go ahead this is crazy talk we're going to be fair play more night states for the holocaust look the syrian government has been massacring hundreds of thousands that since randoms that's when
premised its foreign policy based on being connected to join with the shah a time that was two years before the government was overthrown by a popular people's revolution of course saudi arabia has formant its civil war in syria it had a principle a fundamental. desire to overthrow the assad government to create a sunni a sunni government that would be backed by the saw saudi regime it did this in concert with the with got our and others it functioned as a proxy of course for the united states...
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to advance some sort of legacy where his foreign policy is concerned you know if i have to agree with. him. the map of the middle east in my head right now and i'm just going from country to country and i'm going you know like libya egypt israel saudi arabia of course syria is a little bit different in iraq i mean nobody in those countries particularly cares what the president of the united states says about anything these days they most of them don't even seem like they want to even answer the phone i mean how did this happen and i don't want to make this into an anti obama program because i did say in the introduction is it is this historical process sits in front of us is it's uncontrollable it's no one country can. deal with this coherently because it's impossible to deal with in a coherent way go ahead stephen i'm trying to get a way out here not just to say it's obama's fault because that's an easy thing to say go ahead. i don't think any american president could get a grip on what is happening totally on the arab spring consequences and developments the fact is that you know i
to advance some sort of legacy where his foreign policy is concerned you know if i have to agree with. him. the map of the middle east in my head right now and i'm just going from country to country and i'm going you know like libya egypt israel saudi arabia of course syria is a little bit different in iraq i mean nobody in those countries particularly cares what the president of the united states says about anything these days they most of them don't even seem like they want to even answer the...
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the union's foreign policy chief called if are an immediate end to the violence. catherine ashton called for reconciliation. >> investigators are looking into what happened moments before a plane crash landed. two students from china died when the airliner went down on saturday. 180 people were injured. the head of the national transportation safety board said the plane was well below target speed. >> about three seconds prior to impact the flight data recorder recorded its lowest speed of 103 knots. at this time the engines were at about 50% power. >> she said the plane was coming in too slow as it approaches the runway. it picked up speed in the last three seconds. the pilots were trying to adjust speed to make another attempt at a landing. investigators are speaking with the pilots on board. spokespersons said a trainee was at the controls and a veteran pilot was giving instructions. they say the veteran only qualified to be an instructor three weeks ago. south korean media say he was overseeing a copilot for the first time. emergency crews in canada are search
the union's foreign policy chief called if are an immediate end to the violence. catherine ashton called for reconciliation. >> investigators are looking into what happened moments before a plane crash landed. two students from china died when the airliner went down on saturday. 180 people were injured. the head of the national transportation safety board said the plane was well below target speed. >> about three seconds prior to impact the flight data recorder recorded its lowest...
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i think would be a little too simplistic to say that american foreign policy is explicitly neoconservative all the time but that said i do think that since the cold war we have as a nation been interfering far too much in other people's affairs but like i said i think be a little simplicity say it's been a blanket leave neo conservative ok matthew i can stay with you would you say it doesn't matter what party is in power. if you said since the cold war end of the cold war i think that yeah. sure democrats and republicans have both demonstrated that they are willing to get engaged in other nations abroad. obviously the events of nine eleven highlighted the republicans as the ones that like to intervene in other countries but it is by no means just a republican trade. mark would you weigh in on that would you describe american foreign policy as neo conservative absolutely not i i think words matter phrases matter and it's very important understand neo conservatism in terms of u.s. foreign policy has to do with not only seeing the world as black and white this constant struggle between good a
i think would be a little too simplistic to say that american foreign policy is explicitly neoconservative all the time but that said i do think that since the cold war we have as a nation been interfering far too much in other people's affairs but like i said i think be a little simplicity say it's been a blanket leave neo conservative ok matthew i can stay with you would you say it doesn't matter what party is in power. if you said since the cold war end of the cold war i think that yeah....
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in the up of people foreign policy arena, scholars, former diplomats. it is basically a group of people. the organization has become a think tank where you have the scholars who produce policy analysis. counciliation with the is only as a member. i am with the brookings institution. host: robert from west virginia on our democratic line. you're on with shibley telhami. turn down your tv and go ahead with your question or comment. we will go to craig from california on our democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. finally the united states of america, the people were heard. gave a no on syria . do you believe or is it your opinion the real directive comes from israel for all of our controls and actions in syria and palestine? question issrael always important for the u.s.. america support for israel is one of the cornerstones of the foreign policy. ask the you do, question about the consequences for israel and consult for israel on matters that have importance. israel is a big factor in all this, including syria. israelry kerry is in briefing
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>> hedging is a gamble and risky foreign policy. in addition to what you mentioned, a month ago, somebody put a sign on the qatar's airways office at the trip of the airport saying we don't want you, go away. and the airways jet wasn't allowed to land in triply and had to go to alexandrialexandri and land. it has taken a back-seat in syria in relation to saudi arabia and the government of egypt, talk about a slap in the face, returned to qatar $2 billion to qatar that they had given in the form of long-term loans and grants to the egyptian government. so the question is whether or not qatar's hedging strategy has failed -- i am not sure. it could have failed/backfired. i think these are setbacks. my hunch is that the in the long term they have positioned themselves. the creation of condition is one thing to keep in mind. the creation of overall condition that become involved. you might take hits in the short term and these examples could be a couple short term hedges qatar is suffering. i am reluctant to say these a arepart of the s
>> hedging is a gamble and risky foreign policy. in addition to what you mentioned, a month ago, somebody put a sign on the qatar's airways office at the trip of the airport saying we don't want you, go away. and the airways jet wasn't allowed to land in triply and had to go to alexandrialexandri and land. it has taken a back-seat in syria in relation to saudi arabia and the government of egypt, talk about a slap in the face, returned to qatar $2 billion to qatar that they had given in...
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hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle what drives american foreign policy values or merely interests washington claims it supports democracy as a universal value but makes glaring exceptions when it suits its geo political purposes and what about the neo conservative agenda is it the genetic code of pax americana. to cross-talk the new conservatives and democracy i'm joined by my guest in washington mark jacobson he is a senior fellow at the german marshall fund and a senior advisor to the truman national security project and we also have matthew feeney he is an assistant editor at reason twenty four seven right german cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want matthew playing go to you first in washington would you describe american foreign policy use is neoconservative. i think would be a little too simplistic to say that american foreign policy is explicitly neoconservative all the time but that said i do think that since the cold war we have as a nation been interfering far too much in other people's affairs but like i said i
hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle what drives american foreign policy values or merely interests washington claims it supports democracy as a universal value but makes glaring exceptions when it suits its geo political purposes and what about the neo conservative agenda is it the genetic code of pax americana. to cross-talk the new conservatives and democracy i'm joined by my guest in washington mark jacobson he is a senior fellow at the german marshall fund...
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two days later and foreign policy, hillary and i took stairstep a nice feature. i recognize the notion that two former u.s. government officials turn university professors betting george soros and anything made an absurd, but that's what we did. we given that not only with the islamic republic still beat the rams government and a year's time, but the balance of influence and power in the middle east to be tilted even further in the favor. almost two years since iris made his feature as they were eager to collect on it. later in 2011, the back-and-forth between ayatollah khomeini, the islamic republic later and president ahmadinejad over the resignation reinstatement of the intelligence minister and other issues. the same cast of iran expert on mainstream media gave developments overblown, even hysterical treatment portraying them as unprecedented signs of an insecure regime. such analyses revealed the very least lamentable ignorance about the islamic republic political history, which since the revolution has been marked by an touch of the same kind of intense com
two days later and foreign policy, hillary and i took stairstep a nice feature. i recognize the notion that two former u.s. government officials turn university professors betting george soros and anything made an absurd, but that's what we did. we given that not only with the islamic republic still beat the rams government and a year's time, but the balance of influence and power in the middle east to be tilted even further in the favor. almost two years since iris made his feature as they...
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foreign policy in of course it was agreed. back in the eighty's until very very late on the united states supporting the apartheid regime it viewed the continent very much through a cold war lens and and still is suffering justifiably ill feeling from south africa to this day as a result the united states. are. going to going to be if you gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the obama's policy on afghanistan with our team. these. thank. you musquito language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world's hotspots of the ip interviews intriguing story for you. in trying. to find out is it our big teeth dog call. welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing obama's trip to the african continent. ok clarence if we can change gears here a little bit in reading mainstream media about this trip a lot of people are saying it's a day late and a buck shor
foreign policy in of course it was agreed. back in the eighty's until very very late on the united states supporting the apartheid regime it viewed the continent very much through a cold war lens and and still is suffering justifiably ill feeling from south africa to this day as a result the united states. are. going to going to be if you gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the obama's policy on...
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military as the two-time foreign policy because they did not cause the war it was the decision of the civilian of the pentagon and the white house and the state department and the war it -- the way it played out that general petraeus and that being a hero of the iraq war and the surge in debt being the military solution to a catastrophe caused that way and as the expression -- expression goes they drink their own chalaza they can now thinking it deserved all the resources it could get and has the solution to the problem and definitely doesn't need diplomats or diplomacy. and thought it has reinvented the ending of the warsaw with world war ii we go to vietnam are varieties of war around the world but the diplomats and dip negotiating and to look at the balkans in vietnam kissinger are holbrooke were in charge and the military provided them to the with many to go to negotiations in paris with the backing of the military. so it came to be a coin strategy not only the savior of the war with a counterinsurgency of what would end the war by america's global strategy to deal with terrorism
military as the two-time foreign policy because they did not cause the war it was the decision of the civilian of the pentagon and the white house and the state department and the war it -- the way it played out that general petraeus and that being a hero of the iraq war and the surge in debt being the military solution to a catastrophe caused that way and as the expression -- expression goes they drink their own chalaza they can now thinking it deserved all the resources it could get and has...
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premised its foreign policy based on being connected hip joint with the with the shah a time that was two years before the government was overthrown by a popular people's revolution of course saudi arabia has formant its civil war in syria it had a principle a fundamental. desire to overthrow the assad government to create a sunni a sunni government that would be backed by the saw saudi regime it did this in concert with the with got our and others it functioned as a proxy of course for the united states and western and western interests who had said assad must go but saudi arabia had its own independent national interests or perceived national interests or the interests of the monarchy the drove it to carry out civil war the blood of the syrian people is on the hands of the saudi government to so to say that there are. kind of this crazy mad dog massacre going to. their arabia ok more easy mark go ahead this is crazy talk we're going to be fair play more night states for the holocaust look at the syrian government has been massacring hundreds of thousands that since randoms that's wh
premised its foreign policy based on being connected hip joint with the with the shah a time that was two years before the government was overthrown by a popular people's revolution of course saudi arabia has formant its civil war in syria it had a principle a fundamental. desire to overthrow the assad government to create a sunni a sunni government that would be backed by the saw saudi regime it did this in concert with the with got our and others it functioned as a proxy of course for the...
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detached from any sort of warfare or foreign policy that were perpetrated around the world. well thanks for joining us here on our today my colleague ship of all of us here in half an hour's time but up next a survivor's hard of wrenching story of living through the siege of russia's northern capital during world war two live from moscow. negotiations continue but that does not stop the blame game from raging we were told or ran in the western powers are on the verge of even agreement regarding two rounds nuclear program then the talks stalled into the familiar stalemate the enemies of diplomacy appear to have the upper hand is more the only option left. and. margy dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. if you need to review the economic ups and downs in the final column long stay that long to do your sang i and the rest because i take it will be every week on all. the of the. my dear dear diary i am so happy. this is been the best summer of my life. i am a student now and i am going to the village with mo
detached from any sort of warfare or foreign policy that were perpetrated around the world. well thanks for joining us here on our today my colleague ship of all of us here in half an hour's time but up next a survivor's hard of wrenching story of living through the siege of russia's northern capital during world war two live from moscow. negotiations continue but that does not stop the blame game from raging we were told or ran in the western powers are on the verge of even agreement regarding...
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yes let's let's first look at saudi foreign policy based not on the shiite sunni division even though that's a factor the fundamental power of their foreign policy is based on their own estimation of what the regime needs in order to stay in power it is a fragile regime it is an absolute it's monarchy it has been in power for eighty years and has never had an election one third of all the people in saudi arabia are migrants the saudi population is dependent on migrant labor for work that makes the regime completely unstable in its core in its essence in terms of its domestic policy in spite of its oil wealth so what it did over the long term was function as a proxy as a client for the united states in the recent years after the onset of the so-called arab spring the saudi arabia's did pursue a more independent aggressive foreign policy trying to carry out regime change against others in the middle east but even when it did so it did so with the united states not against the united states it's the united states and the saudis had the same goal and syria would remit now you see because
yes let's let's first look at saudi foreign policy based not on the shiite sunni division even though that's a factor the fundamental power of their foreign policy is based on their own estimation of what the regime needs in order to stay in power it is a fragile regime it is an absolute it's monarchy it has been in power for eighty years and has never had an election one third of all the people in saudi arabia are migrants the saudi population is dependent on migrant labor for work that makes...
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to advance some sort of legacy where his foreign policy is concerned you know i have to agree with. him. the map of the middle east in my head right now and i'm just going from country to country and i'm going you know like libya egypt israel saudi arabia of course syria is a little bit different in iraq i mean nobody in those countries particularly cares what the president of the united states says about anything these days they most of them don't even seem like they want to even answer the phone i mean how did this happen and i don't want to make this into an anti obama program because i did say in the introduction is it is this historical process sits in front of us is it's uncontrollable it's no one country can. deal with this coherently because it's impossible to deal with in a coherent way go ahead stephen i'm trying to get a way out here not just to say it's obama's fault because that's an easy thing to say go ahead. i don't think any american president could get a grip on what is happening totally on the arab spring consequences and developments the fact is that you know i c
to advance some sort of legacy where his foreign policy is concerned you know i have to agree with. him. the map of the middle east in my head right now and i'm just going from country to country and i'm going you know like libya egypt israel saudi arabia of course syria is a little bit different in iraq i mean nobody in those countries particularly cares what the president of the united states says about anything these days they most of them don't even seem like they want to even answer the...
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yes let's let's first look at saudi foreign policy based not on the shiite sunni division even though that's a factor the fundamental power of their foreign policy is based on their own estimation of what the regime needs in order to stay in power it is a fragile regime it is an absolute it's monarchy it has been in power for eighty years and has never had an election one third of all the people in saudi arabia are migrants the saudi population is dependent on migrant labor for work that makes the regime completely unstable in its core in its essence in terms of its domestic policy in spite of its oil wealth so what it did over the long term was function as a proxy as a client for the united states in the recent years after the onset of the so-called arab spring the saudi arabia as they pursue a more independent aggressive foreign policy trying to carry out regime change against others in the middle east but even when it did so it did so with the united states not against the united states it's the united states and the saudis had the same goal in syria which was to overthrow the assa
yes let's let's first look at saudi foreign policy based not on the shiite sunni division even though that's a factor the fundamental power of their foreign policy is based on their own estimation of what the regime needs in order to stay in power it is a fragile regime it is an absolute it's monarchy it has been in power for eighty years and has never had an election one third of all the people in saudi arabia are migrants the saudi population is dependent on migrant labor for work that makes...
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you should trust in american foreign policy and in our wisdom. we know what we are doing and you should support us. they would look at you very politely and not say anything. and then we went six months back and announcing this policy there is a deadline they would say you and your policy is only good for one year they would say no, no, no, we are going to succeed in one year and then they would say but that makes all of your conclusions and arguments even less credible than before because we know that this isn't a one year game so how are you going to do it? as soon as this was done we ended up going back and saying we are starting the troop withdrawal and we are going to be gone by 2014. so, what i saw is it is almost like we were constantly talking to ourselves, this largely america headline driven it sounded good. it never convince anybody. in fact by the end what i saw is they concluded that we are confused and lack commitment. it's very dangerous for those countries to hitch their wagons to the united states wouldn't you just wait for me to
you should trust in american foreign policy and in our wisdom. we know what we are doing and you should support us. they would look at you very politely and not say anything. and then we went six months back and announcing this policy there is a deadline they would say you and your policy is only good for one year they would say no, no, no, we are going to succeed in one year and then they would say but that makes all of your conclusions and arguments even less credible than before because we...